Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for execution of a secured environment initialization instruction
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Application No.: US14222939Application Date: 2014-03-24
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Publication No.: US09361121B2Publication Date: 2016-06-07
- Inventor: James A. Sutton, II , David W. Grawrock
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agent Thomas R. Lane
- Main IPC: G06F9/44
- IPC: G06F9/44 ; G06F21/57 ; G06F9/445 ; G01N23/223 ; G01N33/50 ; G01N33/68 ; G06F12/14
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for initiating secure operations in a microprocessor system is described. In one embodiment, one initiating logical processor initiates the process by halting the execution of the other logical processors, and then loading initialization and secure virtual machine monitor software into memory. The initiating processor then loads the initialization software into secure memory for authentication and execution. The initialization software then authenticates and registers the secure virtual machine monitor software prior to secure system operations.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140281467A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXECUTION OF A SECURED ENVIRONMENT INITIALIZATION INSTRUCTION Public/Granted day:2014-09-18
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